Courses

Undergraduate courses on Mathematics, Statistics, Numerical Analysis  and Computer Programming. 

Research

Expertise :
Wim van Beers is a member of the Department of Quantitative Economics of the University of Amsterdam. His primary research area is Kriging for interpolation in random simulation.

Other activities

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Education

Ph. D., Tilburg University, Department Information Systems and Management, Operations Research Group.
Dissertation on simulation in Operational Research, title: 'Kriging Metamodeling for Simulation'
Supervisor: Professor Dr. Jack P.C. Kleijnen.
M.Sc. in mathematics, University of Amsterdam, Faculty of Science.
Thesis on numerical analysis, title: Een Verkenning van Triangular Bernstein-Bezier patches.
Supervisor: Dr. Pia R. Pfluger.

Favorite Quote

 “It is not possible to wait for inspiration, and even inspiration alone is not sufficient. Work and more work is necessary. Man blessed by genius can create nothing really great, not even anything mediocre, if he does not toil as hard as a slave.”
<<Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky>>

Publication list

A . Working papers

WP1 Convex Kriging metamodels for random simulation (Together with Jack P.C. Kleijnen and E. Mehdad) 

B. Publications

13. Convex and monotonic bootstrapped Kriging ( Together with Jack P.C. Kleijnen and E. Mehdad) Proceedings of the 2012 Winter Simulation Conference, edited by C. Laroque, J. Himmelspach, R. Pasupathy, O. Rose, and A.M. Uhrmacher
12. Monotonicity-preserving bootstrapped Kriging metamodels for expensive simulations. (Together with Jack P.C.Kleijnen); Journal of the Operational Research Society, 64(5), 2013, 708-717
11. Expected improvement in efficient global optimization through bootstrapped Kriging. (Together with Jack P.C. Kleijnen and I. van Nieuwenhuyse); Journal on Global Optimization, 54, 2012, pp 59-73
10. Constrained optimization in simulation: a novel approach. (Together with Jack P.C.Kleijnen, and Inneke van Nieuwwenhuyse) European Journal of Operational Research, 202, 2010, pp. 164-174
9. Kriging metamodeling in constrained simulation optimization: an explorative study (Together with William E. Biles, Jack P.C.Kleijnen, and Inneke van Nieuwwenhuyse) Proceedings of the 2007 Winter Simulation Conference, eds. S. G. Henderson, B. Biller, M.-H. Hsieh, J. Shortle, J. D. Tew, and R. R. Barton, pp. 355-362
8. Kriging in constrained optimization of computer simulations (Together with William E. Biles and Jack P.C.Kleijnen) ECEC-FUBUTEC-EUROMEDIA 2007, Delft University of Technology 2007
7. Kriging metamodeling in discrete-event simulation: an overview. Proceedings of the 2005 Winter Simulation Conference, eds. M.E. Kuhl, N.M. Steiger, F.B. Armstrong, J.A. Joines, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York, pp. 202-208
6. Kriging Metamodeling for Simulation. Ph.D. dissertation, Tilburg University, Tilburg, 28 October 2005
5. Customized sequential designs for random simulation experiments: Kriging metamodeling and bootstrapping (Together with J.P.C. Kleijnen), European Journal of Operational Research 186, no. 3, 2008, pp. 1099-1113
4. Kriging interpolation in simulation: a survey. (Together with J.P.C. Kleijnen). Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference, eds. R.G. Ingalls, M.D. Rossetti, J.S. Smith, B.A. Peter, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Piscataway, NJ, pp. 113-121
3. Application-driven sequential designs for simulation experiments: Kriging metamodeling (Together with J.P.C. Kleijnen) Journal of the Operational Research Society, 55, issue 9, August 2004, pp. 876-883
2. Robustness of Kriging when interpolating in random simulation with heterogeneous variances: some experiments . (Together with J.P.C. Kleijnen). European Journal of Operational Research, vol. 165, issue 3, 2005, pp. 826-834
1. Kriging for interpolation in random simulation. (Together with J.P.C. Kleijnen). Journal of the Operational Research Society, no. 54, 2003, pp. 255-262

C. Seminars

15. Kriging and Bootstrapping: two examples. Workshop European Science Foundation, Rome, 10 May 2012
14. Monotonicity-preserving bootstrapped Kriging metamodels for expensive simulations. CentER, Tilburg University, Tilburg, 2 July 2009
13. Sampling-based Optimization in the Presence of Uncertainty. Dagstuhl Seminar,  Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany, 26 - 30 April 2009 
12. Metamodels and Design of Experiments. Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, 10 September 2008
11. Constrained optimization in simulation: novel approach. Seminar at the Winter Simulation Conference 2007, Washington DC, 9-12 December 2007
10. Constrained optimization in simulation: novel approach. CentER, Tilburg University, Tilburg, 8 November 2007
9. Kriging metamodeling in discrete-event simulation: an overview. Seminar at the Winter Simulation Conference 2005, Orlando, 4-7 December 2005
8. Kriging interpolation in simulation: a survey. Seminar at the Winter Simulation Conference 2004, Washington DC, 5-8 December 2004
7. Kriging interpolation in simulation: a survey.Seminar at OR 2004, Tilburg University, 1-3 September 2004
6. Customized sequential designs for random simulation experiments: Kriging metamodeling and bootstrapping. CentER, Tilburg University, Tilburg, 15 July 2004
5. Kriging for interpolation in simulation. Philips Research Laboratories , Eindhoven, 13 January 2004
4. Application-driven sequential designs for simulation experiments: Kriging metamodeling Seminar at EURO/INFORMS, Istanbul (Turkey), 6-10 July 2003
3. Robustness of Kriging when interpolating in random simulation with heterogeneous variances. CentER, Tilburg University, Tilburg, 2002
2. Kriging for interpolation in discrete-event simulation. CentER, Tilburg University, Tilburg, 20 September 2001
1. Metamodels in simulation: stationary covariance processes, Kriging and splines. CentER, Tilburg University, Tilburg, 2000

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